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class="text-gray-900 text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold mb-2">We promise to provide guaranteed support response times</h3><div class="flex flex-col h-full justify-between space-y-5"><p class="text-gray-600 text-base"></p></div></div></div><div class="col-span-2"><div class="flex flex-col w-full items-start"><span class="text-gray-600 bg-gray-100 mb-5 rounded-[10px] flex flex-center w-10 h-10 lg:w-12 lg:h-12 p-3 text-lg font-bold"><svg class="block shrink-0 stroke-2 h-6 w-6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><use xlink:href="/sprites/standard-74e72dba.svg#coins-hand"></use></svg></span><h3 class="text-gray-900 text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold mb-2">We will refund you up to 100% of any month where we fail to hit our SLA</h3><div class="flex flex-col h-full justify-between space-y-5"><p class="text-gray-600 text-base"></p></div></div></div></div></div></section><div class="" id="mob-section-nav"></div><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-4 md:px-8 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2023</p></div><div><div class="term-section space-y-4 pt-8" id="uptime-service-level"><span class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-semibold">Guaranteed uptime service level</span><ol class="text-gray-600 list-decimal list-outside pl-5 space-y-4 md:text-lg"><li>Krystal shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to make its servers available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 100% network availability (Uptime Service Level).</li><li>The servers shall be considered as unavailable only during periods when the servers and/or connectivity is either completely inaccessible or is severely degraded, or major components of the servers are not operational and work cannot reasonably continue; and</li><li>The servers shall not be considered as "unavailable" during necessary maintenance, Customer-caused outages or disruptions, or outages or disruptions attributable in whole or in part to a cause outside Krystal's reasonable control.</li></ol></div><div class="term-section space-y-4 pt-8" id="support-response-time"><span class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-semibold">Guaranteed support response time</span><p class="text-gray-600 md:text-lg">Krystal shall:</p><ol class="text-gray-600 list-decimal list-outside pl-5 space-y-4 md:text-lg"><li>Prioritise all Support Requests based on its reasonable assessment of the severity level of the problem reported; and</li><li>Respond to all Support Requests in accordance with the responses and response times specified in the table set out below:</li></ol><div class="!mt-8 space-y-8"><div class="border border-t-4 border-error-600"><div class="border-b bg-error-50 text-error-700 border-b-error-600 flex justify-between px-8 py-4"><span class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold">Severity level</span><span class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold capitalize">critical</span></div><div><div class="px-8 py-8 border-b border-b-gray-200 space-y-4"><span class="text-md md:text-lg font-semibold capitalize">Definition</span><p class="text-gray-600 font-semibold md:text-lg">Business Critical Failures: a problem that materially impacts the client鈥檚 business operations.</p><p class="text-gray-600 md:text-lg">Examples include:</p><ul class="text-gray-600 list-disc list-outside pl-5 md:text-lg"><li>Any of the client鈥檚 servers going offline</li><li>The client's service being inaccessible</li><li>Any server failure that results in a client not being able to carry out typical tasks on the client鈥檚 service</li></ul></div><div class="px-8 py-8 space-y-4"><span class="text-md md:text-lg font-semibold capitalize">Response Stages and Times</span><ol class="text-gray-600 list-decimal list-outside pl-5 md:text-lg"><li>Acknowledgment of receipt of support request within 30 minutes, measured from the first of (a) when infrastructure monitors alert Krystal鈥檚 engineers, or (b) a critical-priority technical support ticket is created by the client to report a service problem.</li><li>Provide an update as frequently as possible, and at least every 60 minutes, measured from the time of the last response to the support request, until full restoration of service.</li><li>Krystal shall work on the problem continuously and exercise commercially reasonable efforts until full restoration of service.</li></ol></div></div></div><div class="border border-t-4 border-warning-600"><div class="border-b bg-warning-50 text-warning-700 border-b-warning-600 flex justify-between px-8 py-4"><span class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold">Severity level</span><span class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold capitalize">high</span></div><div><div class="px-8 py-8 border-b border-b-gray-200 space-y-4"><span class="text-md md:text-lg font-semibold capitalize">Definition</span><p class="text-gray-600 font-semibold md:text-lg">Defect with workaround</p><p class="text-gray-600 md:text-lg">Examples include:</p><ul class="text-gray-600 list-disc list-outside pl-5 md:text-lg"><li>A critical error in service for which a workaround exists</li><li>A non-critical error that affects the operations of the client's business or marketability of its service or product</li></ul></div><div class="px-8 py-8 space-y-4"><span class="text-md md:text-lg font-semibold capitalize">Response Stages and Times</span><ol class="text-gray-600 list-decimal list-outside pl-5 md:text-lg"><li>Acknowledgment of receipt of support request within 60 minutes, measured from the first of (a) when infrastructure monitors alert Krystal鈥檚 engineers, or (b) a high-priority technical support ticket is created by the client to report a service problem.</li><li>Provide an update every 2 hours measured from the time of the last response to a support request, until full restoration of service.</li><li>Krystal shall exercise commercially reasonable efforts until full restoration of service.</li></ol></div></div></div><div class="border border-t-4 border-success-600"><div class="border-b bg-success-50 text-success-700 border-b-success-700 flex justify-between px-8 py-4"><span class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold">Severity level</span><span class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold capitalize">normal</span></div><div><div class="px-8 py-8 border-b border-b-gray-200 space-y-4"><span class="text-md md:text-lg font-semibold capitalize">Definition</span><p class="text-gray-600 font-semibold md:text-lg">Minor Error: an isolated or minor error</p><p class="text-gray-600 md:text-lg">Examples include:</p><ul class="text-gray-600 list-disc list-outside pl-5 md:text-lg"><li>An error that does not significantly affect business operations</li><li>An error that may disable only certain non-essential functions</li><li>An error that does not materially impact the client鈥檚 business performance</li></ul></div><div class="px-8 py-8 space-y-4"><span class="text-md md:text-lg font-semibold capitalize">Response Stages and Times</span><ol class="text-gray-600 list-decimal list-outside pl-5 md:text-lg"><li>Acknowledgment of receipt of support request within 2 hours, measured from the first of (a) when infrastructure monitors alert Krystal鈥檚 engineers, or (b) a normal-priority technical support ticket is created by the client to report a service problem.</li><li>Krystal shall provide a permanent fault correction within 2 Business Days after the acknowledgment of the support request has elapsed.</li></ol></div></div></div></div></div><div class="term-section space-y-4 pt-8" id="service-credits"><span class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-semibold">Service Credits</span><ol class="text-gray-600 list-decimal list-outside pl-5 space-y-4 md:text-lg"><li>If availability falls below the Uptime Service Level in a given calendar month (Service Delivery Failure), Krystal shall provide Service Credits at a rate of 5% of the total monthly Hosting Fee (which shall be one twelfth of the annual Hosting Fee) for every 30 minutes of Service Delivery Failure evidenced by the Client.</li><li>If Krystal fails to achieve a relevant Support Response Time (Service Delivery Failure), Krystal shall 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